Shuford v. Commissioners of Lincoln County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Application for an injunction heard at Spring Term 1881, of LINCOLN Superior Court, before Eure, J. The injunction was refused and the plaintiffs appealed. A similar application was made in Thornburg v. Commissioners of GastonCounty, at chambers on the 8th of November) 1881, before Avery, J., and refused.
1Opinion of the Court
Ruffin, J,
Shuford v. Commissioners of Lincoln county, and Thornburg v. Commissioners of Gaston county :
These two actions have a common object — it being to enjoin the collection of certain rates imposed, in the first case by the commissioners of Lincoln county, and in the second, by those of Gaston county, for the purpose of erecting fences around certain townships within those counties, under the act of 1879, ch. 135, known as the “Stock Law.”
It is instituted by the plaintiffs ;
1. That inasmuch as that statute made the adoption of its provisions to depend upon the concurrence of “a majority…
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